Belator: "The hot Spring supplied water for the
bath house. This has the sort of rooms that most Roman towns
have. The only unusual room is the Great Bath: a huge hot
swimming pool. We can only touch the bottom with our toes if
we go under water!"
"All the rooms are roofed and many have high ceilings.
They have colourful painted walls and some have mosaic floors."
"Many ill people visit the baths because they believe they will
get better if they swim in the waters of Sulis Minerva."
How the roofed bath house may have looked
One of the baths inside the bath house
"Roman baths were like our leisure centres. They were big
buildings with swimming pools, changing rooms and toilets.
They also had hot and cold rooms more like modern Turkish
baths."
"The water in the Great Bath now is green and looks dirty.
This is because tiny plants called algae grow in it. In Roman
times the roof over the bath would have kept the light out and so
stopped the algae from growing."